Quacks and grafters / by Ex-osteopath; being an exposé of the state of therapeutics at the present time, with some reasons why such grafters flourish, and suggestions to remedy the deplorable muddle.

Date:
1908
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Credit: Quacks and grafters / by Ex-osteopath; being an exposé of the state of therapeutics at the present time, with some reasons why such grafters flourish, and suggestions to remedy the deplorable muddle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CHAPTER IV—Turbid Therapeutics 51 An Astounding Array of Therapeutic Systems—Diet —Water—Optics—Hemotherapy—Consumption Cures —Placebos—Inconsistencies and Contradictions—Os- ier's Opinion of Appendicitis—Fair Statement of Limitations in Medicine Desirable. CHAPTER V—The Expert Witness and Proprietary Medicines 57 The Great Nerve Specialist—The Professional Witness a Jonah—The Railway Spine—Is it Lack of Fairness and Honesty or Lack of Skill and Learning?—Destruction of Fine Herds of Cattle Without Compensation—Koch's Dictum and Denial^ Koch's Tuberculin—The Serum Tribe—Stupendous Sale of Nostrums—Druggist's Arguments—Use of Proprietary Medicines Stimulates Sale of Nostrums. CHAPTER VI—Faith Cure and Graft in Surgery 62 Suggestive Therapeutics Chief Stock in Trade—^Ad- vice of a Medical College President—Disease Pre- , vention Rather than Cure—Hygienic Living—The Medical Pretender—Dangerous Diagnosis Graft— Great Flourish of Trumpets—No Starving Time for Him—Big Operations—Mutilating the Human Body—Dr. C. W. Oviatt's Views—Dr. Maurice H. Richardson's Incisive Statements—Crying Need for Reform—Surgery that is Useless, Conscienceless and for Purely Commercial Ends—Spirit of Surgical Graft Especially in the West—Fee-Splitting and Commissions—A Nation of Dollar-Chasers—The Public's Share of Responsibility—Senn's Advice— The Surgical Conscience. [10]